Björn Roose's posts from January 2021

Jan. 31, 2021

Kenderes (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 1

Kenderes is just a small town half way between Budapest and Nagyvárad (Oradea, nowadays in Romania), but it is also known as the birthplace of Miklós Horthy,…

by bjornroose

Jan. 30, 2021

Vésztő (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 5

Last series of photos from Vésztő (Hungary). Last series of photos also about these magnificent animals, the Hungarian Grey cattle. They had enough of the…

by bjornroose

Jan. 29, 2021

Vésztő (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 4

I introduced you to these beautiful animals in the previous post. Now let's see some more of the Hungarian Grey.

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Jan. 29, 2021

Vésztő (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 3

You may remember I met the typical local cattle in this post, this post and this one. They were grazing freely on the puszta and I didn't really dare…

by bjornroose

Jan. 28, 2021

Vésztő (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 2

Let's walk away from the museum and the ruins (see previous post) and look if we can see the actual burial mounds (also known as the Mágor mounds) in the…

by bjornroose

Jan. 28, 2021

Vésztő (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 1

Despite the use of Waze, it took us some time to find the burial mounds in Vésztő. Actually Waze brought us very close, but you can't see the burial mounds from…

by bjornroose

Jan. 27, 2021

Gyula (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 4

Final post in the Gyula mini series. Some more architecture and - how predictable can it get ? - a nice piece of sculpture :-)

by bjornroose

Jan. 27, 2021

Gyula (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 3

Further down the road from the castle (see here) to the old town, we arrived at a palace (Almásy-kastély) and at the house where a man named Ajtósi was born…

by bjornroose

Jan. 26, 2021

Gyula (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 2

As we walked from the castle to the old town (you may have noticed the Ferris Wheel in the previous post - that's part of the newer part of town, centered…

by bjornroose

Jan. 26, 2021

Gyula (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 1

Gyula is located in the Great Hungarian Plain on the river Fehér-Körös and very close to what is nowadays the Hungarian-Romanian border. Somewhere between the…

by bjornroose

Jan. 25, 2021

Szabadkígyós (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 3

And then, for the final post in this Szabadkígyós series (here's part 1 and 2) as mentioned in the first part a few shots of the lesser buildings and one of the…

by bjornroose

Jan. 25, 2021

Szabadkígyós (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 2

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Jan. 23, 2021

Szabadkígyós (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 1

Szabadkígyóis is, as Wikipedia states, "a village in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary". Couldn't tell you more about the…

by bjornroose

Jan. 23, 2021

Eger (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 11

Last post in the Eger mini series (well, honestly, 11 posts ain't that mini). Six streets and a school: Foglár utca, Jókai Mór utca, Markhót Ferenc utca, Pori s…

by bjornroose

Jan. 22, 2021

Eger (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 10

One but last post in the Eger series. Photos from Bajcsy-Zsilinszky utca, Dózsa tér (where my girlfriend, as I mentioned here, was sketching while I visited the…

by bjornroose

Jan. 22, 2021

Eger (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 9

Well, from here on this series becomes a mixture of things again. In this 9th part two photos of the Megyeháza (the administration of the county) and two of the…

by bjornroose

Jan. 21, 2021

Eger (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 8

As you may have read on Wikipedia by now, Eger is built around a stream. That stream is also called Eger (how easy can it get, right?) and here's some shots I…

by bjornroose

Jan. 21, 2021

Eger (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 7

From the castle (see here, here, here and here) we move to a palace: the palace of the bishop (Érseki palota). And from there to the basilica (Főszékesegyház).…

by bjornroose

Jan. 20, 2021

Eger (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 6

In this part, the last one about the castle, a few more shots of the city from upon the walls and the walls themselves, and a few shots of one of the monuments …

by bjornroose

Jan. 20, 2021

Eger (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 5

Third part on the Egri vár (Eger castle). You'll find the first two parts here and here. On with the show!

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